Silly question here - but why not change lanes? The fact it is a tunnel has no impact on the actual road you are driving on, so assuming you are driving sensibly and taking due care, there should be no impediment to changing lanes....seems another redundant rule to attempt to mitigate peoples stupidity?

Silly question here - but why not change lanes? The fact it is a tunnel has no impact on the actual road you are driving on, so assuming you are driving sensibly and taking due care, there should be no impediment to changing lanes....seems another redundant rule to attempt to mitigate peoples stupidity?

Edited cause typing legibly is hard :|

Agreed, most people should be able to safely change lanes in a tunnel.

The 'rule' is there for the lowest common denominator. It shouldn't be so easy to get a drivers license...

Yep, it is to accommodate the fact that a lot of drivers are useless/inconsiderate - they follow too close and speed up to stop people changing lanes. The end result is that the lane changes cause pressure waves in the flow and everything slows down. If people would allow a reasonable gap and anticipate to allow people to merge/change lanes smoothly then traffic would flow better overall. Bring on driverless cars?

That statement that could be almost universally applied to humans. We are all pretty bad.

Like the guy I got stuck behind yesterday in the tunnel. In an old Nissan ute, with furniture piled high, unsecured in the back, doing about 60kmh. Wish I had a dashcam. Everyone dutifully stayed in their lane until we exited the tunnel, but I can only imagine the carnage if stuff had started falling off.Commute was still ten minutes shorter than similar journeys in the past.

Silly question here - but why not change lanes? The fact it is a tunnel has no impact on the actual road you are driving on, so assuming you are driving sensibly and taking due care, there should be no impediment to changing lanes....seems another redundant rule to attempt to mitigate peoples stupidity?

A pile up in the tunnel has serious consequences for emergency service access to the scene. Motorways can be accessed from adjacent streets if needed. Tunnels are challenging. So yes, but not redundant.